Home Life on an Ostrich Farm
Home Life on an Ostrich Farm

Author: Annie Mrs. Martin

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-05-18

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13:

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Home Life on an Ostrich Farm is a book by Mrs. Annie Martin. It details the adventurous moving of a family to South Africa, where they set up an ostrich farm as a business venture. Excerpt: "South Africa is the land of pet animals. The feathered and four-footed creatures are all delightful. They have the quaintest and most amusing ways, and they are very easily tamed. The little time and attention which in a busy colonial home can be spared for the pets is always repaid a hundredfold; and often you are surprised to find how quickly the bird or beast which only a few days ago was one of the wild creatures of the veldt—torn suddenly from nest or burrow, and abruptly turned out from the depths of a sack or of a Hottentot's pocket into a human home—has become an intimate friend, with a clearly-marked individual character, most interesting to study, and quite different from those of all its fellows, even of the same kind."

Popular Science
Popular Science

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Publisher:

Published: 1891-10

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13:

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Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.

Food and Foodways in African Narratives
Food and Foodways in African Narratives

Author: Jonathan Highfield

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-04-07

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 1351764438

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Food is a defining feature in every culture. Despite its very basic purpose of sustaining life, it directly impacts the community, culture and heritage in every region around the globe in countless seen and unseen ways, including the literature and narratives of each region. Across the African continent, food and foodways, which refer to the ways that humans consume, produce and experience food, were influened by slavery and forced labor, colonization, foreign aid, and the anxieties prompted by these encounters, all of which can be traced through the ways food is seen in narratives by African and colonial storytellers. The African continent is home to thousands of cultures, but nearly every one has experienced alteration of its foodways because of slavery, transcontinental trade, and colonization. Food and Foodways in African Narratives: Community, Culture, and Heritage takes a careful look at these alterations as seen through African narratives throughout various cultures and spanning centuries.